May 2005

JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects

There's lots to explore in the .NET Framework 2.0, and plenty of digging to be done. If you want to get your hands dirty and learn some of the internals that will carry you through the next few years, you've come to the right place. This article explores CLR internals, including object instance layout, method table layout, method dispatching, interface-based dispatching, and various data structures. Hanu Kommalapati and Tom Christian

Around the Horn: Engineer a Distributed System Using .NET Remoting for Process Intensive Analysis

Before the Microsoft .NET Framework, creating a distributed cluster of computers to perform scientific analysis was expensive in terms of hardware, programming and debugging time, and maintenance. You had to purchase expensive servers, spend time debugging network communication, design a distributed system completely different from a system deployed locally, and maintain a melting pot of error handling, data acquisition, networking, and analysis code. In this article, the author shows you how he was able to engineer a distributed computing system in C# to perform analysis of real-world data continuously acquired at high sampling rates, thanks to the .NET Framework. Nate D'Anna

Draft a Rich UI: Ground Rules for Building Enhanced Windows Forms Support into Your .NET App

In this article, the winning Windows Forms duo of Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt team up again to explore lots of new features and additions to Windows Forms 2.0 that will let you build more flexible, feature-rich controls, get better resource management, more powerful data-binding abilities, and make your development life a whole lot more fun. Michael Weinhardt and Chris Sells

Safe!: Repel Attacks on Your Code with the Visual Studio 2005 Safe C and C++ Libraries

When Visual Studio 2005 ships, it will include a major upgrade to the Visual C++ Libraries that was the result of a complete security review of the functions contained in the C Runtime Library, Standard C++ Library, ATL, and MFC. From that extensive review came the Safe C and C++ Libraries, which can improve the security and robustness of your apps. Martyn Lovell

Touch All the Bases: Give Your .NET App Brains and Brawn with the Intelligence of Neural Networks

Pattern recognition is an increasingly complex field. Every day technologies like handwriting recognition, spam filters, and search engines must identify ever more complicated patterns. One way these complex relationships can be represented is through the use of neural networks. Find out what neural networks can do for your pattern recognition and prediction tasks. Christopher M. Frenz

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